On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:28 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught process if anything goes wrong :(
I blew a 10.3 DVD, verified it and ran the installer. It all went happily and eventually started installing the packages so I went home and left it to it. This morning I came in to find
Missing operating system
on the screen. Which means it's messed up the MBR? I had a poke in the BIOS but don't see anything that looks odd.
I've now found a page that I hope tells me the steps to fix this (I'll post a link if it works). But (a) why is it broken and (b) why is there no install troubleshooting how-to (or at least nobody's told me of one)?
So I put the DVD back in and selected Repair Installed System
Now it says:
An error occurred during the installation
What an incredibly irritating message! I know an error occurred, that's why I asked it to repair the system!
I went to the opensuse site but haven't found any useful installation troubleshooting guides. Can anybody point me to one, please? Or any relevant threads on the list.
Oh yes, the video. When it starts booting, and up until the point where you choose install or repair or rescue etc, the video is fine. After that point it switches into some mode that isn't handled properly with flickering characters etc. It's a rage 128 pro graphics card, nothing fancy and old enough that there shouldn't be any bugs left. So what's going on there?
I worked around this issue by selecting VESA resolution before starting the install but why do I have to? This isn't rocket science.
So I'm not impressed by the 10.3 installation process so far.
Cheers, Dave
Repair install is broken on the 10.3 DVD :-( See the ton of earlier list complaints. I had 2 borked installs with 10.3, but was always able to boot back to the install DVD and the installer would either (1) reinstall everything or (2) pick up a little before the install crash and complete.
Thanks for that. Hopefully I'll be able to find those threads.
This is very very frustrating.
Agreed. These releases increasingly look like betas. I've got better things to do than fight broken install & management systems. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org